Borders #2

Again the problem I see with the pit is that it also ruins towers and traps in a sense, as the feast winner could finish you off fairly quickly before you can set anything up.

I think the forcefield shrinkage is fine, I just make it a point to always set up all of my traps and towers in the 50, -50 range so I don't have to worry about it. Moving a tower would be relatively easy provided you have blocks and/or a healthy endermage. I can understand the frustration with traps but you have about 10 minutes of clearance once the borders start shrinking to move anything, and from that point on you won't be forced to do anything, like a pit would.

 

Close in 30 min into the game until 40 min to 150 -150, not too fast, and still big enough

 

I think they want it to be a replacement to the pit. I don't want it, but if they're gonna force it, it better be slow and still have a wide area

@VitamineC add this: remove the vanilla minecraft instant kill outside the border, make it deal the same as the old forcefield

 

That seems very reasonable to me, and still shortens potential game time.

Also, do you think that the forcefield should be something that can hurt if you all into it? I think that it would help as it introduces new strategies.

 

The closing borders idea is a good one. It is in essence the same as the pit in mcpvp. The whole point of the pit and the shrinking force field is to draw the remaining players together so a winner can be decided to bringing the game to an end so the server can restart. The 1000 by 1000 boarders are designed for 120 people, so it only makes sense that when there are only 2-5 people left in the server the area should also shrink. I think that 100 by 100 (which it is currently) is very sensible.

The alternative is people hiding out on the edge of the force field, waiting out the timer, and the game being decided on the most number of kills, which I think we can all agree is an awful way to end a game since the hardcore games is intrinsically a last man standing server.

It does what it is meant to do the way it is, no changes are needed.

 

100x100 is pathetic.

 

No it isn't.

 

Yes it is. Once it's this small:
Soup: Whoever has the most soup wins, once somebody runs out of soup there's no way he can get more, so he dies
No soup: Whoever has the most armour wins, the rest have way too little space to pull off any game-changing strategies

 

I like shrinking boarders, it helps alot.

 

It's too fast, and instant kills you once you're outside

 

Shrinking borders is a pretty bad idea, it limits strats and encourages soloing more which is already fairly prevalent. People should play the way they like to, with the people they want to and they need a good sandbox for that which is where 500x500 shines.

 

You can no longer get outside

 

You can whilst it is shrinking.

 

Personally, I think the pit is a better idea, but if the shrinking ff is to be kept it needs to have a slower shrinkage speed and starts to shrink 10 minutes after the feast spawns.

 

I think pit should come back